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Foxy Signatunes hits a cool note

Posted: January 31, 2008 in internet, music
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If you use the excellent Firefox web browser, you might already be familiar with the free FoxyTunes plug-in. It basically gives you playback control over your music from a variety of sources – like iTunes, Windows Media Player, Rhapsody, Last.fm or Pandora – without leaving your browser. Now they’ve added a nifty little feature called Signatunes which will be part of the forthcoming 3.0 release of FoxyTunes. It adds an icon to any web mail service (like Hotmail), as well MySpace, Facebook and WordPress (home of Breezeblog), that lets you add a link to a song you’re listening to – or any song on your computer – as a signature. As you will see at the foot of this post, the link to a classic track by Elvis Costello will take you to the FoxyTunes Planet where you can listen to the song, check out videos and a whole bunch of other stuff about Elvis. A cool way to introduce your friends to your music.

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Now playing: Elvis Costello – Alison (My Aim Is True)
via FoxyTunes

iTunes store for Bermuda?

Posted: January 31, 2008 in Bermuda, internet, Mac, music
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Could frustrated Bermuda digital music fans finally be able to legitimately buy downloaded music from the iTunes store without having to resort to overseas credit cards and buying up iTunes gift cards when they’re on a trip? Maybe, according to yesterday’s story in the Bermuda Sun by Tim Hall:

Richard Todd, manager of the island’s iStore, is in negotiations with Apple to have the company’s licensing agreements extended to Bermuda.
Apple’s lawyers are looking at the proposal and are expected to make a decision in the first half of this year. It could mean Bermuda getting its own country-specific version of iTunes – the world’s biggest online music store. Such a move could also put pressure on other companies, such as Amazon, to offer digital music and movies to the island.

Meanwhile, Richard says he hopes to reach an agreement with Apple to at least sell the iTunes gift cards in Bermuda. He’s already managed to convince them to let him sell the Apple TV which – ludicrously – is one of the products Apple deemed a “US-only” product and not available in an Island 600 miles away, which it lumps in the Latin American region. This is also why you cannot buy the top-end 2.8 Extreme iMac in Bermuda either. If you want one, check out B&H in New York. They will ship to Bermuda via UPS.

Back to the Sun story: a couple of minor corrections – eMusic is wrongly listed as an illegal download site (it’s a totally legit, if limited, music store) and yours truly is not a Bermudian, despite the Gibbons surname. I am a mere permanent resident, although I do have a Bermudian daughter which will no doubt be confusing to off-rock readers. Welcome to Bermuda!

QTrax questionable

Posted: January 29, 2008 in internet, Mac, music
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I got all excited for five minutes today … QTrax, an ad-supported free legal P2P music jukebox was announced at the Midem conference last weekend and due to launch this week with 25 million available songs and backing from the big four music labels. At present QTrax is Windows-only – Mac support is due March 18 – with iPod compatibility from April 15.If something sounds too good to be true, chances are it probably is. Well the Jan.28 launch date came and went – the beta player software was eventually available for download today .. but no music. Then last night, the music page went down and was replaced by a site for an Oracle application. Now, it seems that three of the big four labels – EMI, Warner and Universal – have denied having any agreement with QTrax and several news outlets are doubting whether it will take off at all. Watch this Wikipedia page or Wired for breaking developments.

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